TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Relationships Between Information Literacy and
Social Capital with Employee Empowerment
AU - Seifollahi, Naser AU - Shahidnik, Mohammad 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 10
IS  - 19
SP  - 4619
EP  - 4625
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2016.4619.4625
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.4619.4625
KW  - Information literacy
KW  -social capital and empowerment
KW  -multiple regression analysis
KW  -education
KW  -Iran
AB  - The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between information literacy and social capital and employee empowerment among education personnel in the city of Kohgiluyeh (Iran). The population in the present descriptive correlational study consisted of all male education personnel in the city of Kohgiluyeh (n = 270) in 2014. Using Jersey Morgan table and stratified random sampling method 152 people were selected as the study’s samples. The data were collected through the employee empowerment questionnaire the Information literacy questionnaire and the social capital questionnaire. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis. The results showed significant relationships between information literacy and employee empowerment and between social capital and employee empowerment. Among the components of information literacy, effective access to information and understanding legal and economic issues related to the use of information had respectively the highest (0.575) and the lowest (0.490) predictive power in predicting employee empowerment. Among the components of social capital, trust and commitment had respectively the highest (0.590) and the lowest (0.498) predictive power in predicting employee empowerment.
ER  -